Transcript for #bitcoin-dev 2018/01/02

hi, output of block 0 can't be spent as this would allow Satoshi to fork the network. how could this happen ? because at first bitcoin released by Satoshi, the coinbase of block 0 cannot spendable, so if some client allow that address spend, then Satoshi can fork a new blockchain from block 0, and mine his own blockchain more longer than legal blockchain in a private way, then satoshi publish his blockchain, made legal blcokchain cancelled?

fluffypony: eventually it should probably be a protocol violation to send an unsolicited transaction message, but it's not today, though I think in debug mode it had a message about it. there's a couple of wallets that do it, and some insane software doing the same.